Dining room chairs

This is a new chair that I designed to go with the dining room table, and buffet and hutch, that I built earlier. I made a set of six.






All cherry. Finish is a wipe-on oil/poly mix.

The crest rail is made from a solid piece of 12/4 (3") lumber. It has 7 different operations: curves, angled shoulders and mortises for back rails. Shaped by machine and hand.

The job required a lot of jigs, since almost all of the joinery involved compound angles (other than 90 degrees). Picture below shows a simple jig for holding the side seat rails at the correct angle on the drill press.











The finished set: chairs (only 4 of 6 visible), extension table with hidden leaves, buffet and hutch.

It took over 300 hours to design and build these chairs. I'd never done a chair this complicated, or a set of six either.